Word: standoff
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...shipboard press conference before flying back to his Paris headquarters, took a longer view. He spoke with an optimism that would have seemed merely wishful two years ago. What he sees ahead, now that the West is able to confront Russia with growing strength, is a military standoff, without war, in which the West ("unless a lot of us are pretty stupid") could sustain forces on a maintenance basis, without an endless series of $60 billion annual U.S. defense budgets. When military parity is reached, he said, the world would enter a higher, "ten dollar" kind of struggle-between opposing...
Incredibly enough, at week's end, the Gimo's confidence seemed to be working -at least for the moment. The "ten days to three weeks" were up, and the Communists were not yet in Nanking. They had been fought to a standoff in their frontal assault at Suchow and were now shifting for another try, apparently by encirclement, from the south...
Ohio was the best proof of that. Though both Harold Stassen and Robert Taft immediately ran out their victory flags, the result of last week's Ohio primary was a flat standoff. Stassen had picked up only nine of 23 contested delegates-three fewer than he had said he would. Despite Taft's confident prediction that he would lose but one delegate, he had lost nine in his own home state...
...election results added up to no trends. Of three congressional seats, the G.O.P. filled vacancies in Ohio and Indiana which had been previously held by Republicans, and in New York the Democrats kept control of the 14th District. Thousands of state legislature and city elections seesawed to a near standoff, with a slight edge for the Democrats, who registered gains in Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York...
...like watching Joe Louis fight a Joe Louis: two champions in action-so tough, skilled, wary and evenly matched that they were a standoff, and nobody won. The big game of the season, Army v. Notre Dame, ended in a scoreless...